The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-28
THE cHAuTAUouANs.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale Speaks on
Wealth In America.
Proof of the Divine Origin of the
Scriptures.
Or. Dalton's Lecture on the Kingdom
Of Cod.


A. T. Dunn spoke on "Class Management"
At the tenth normal hour, in continuation
of the lesson, The Bible from God, Mr.. Ber-
ry said:
The fifth evidence that the Bible is from
God, which l shall mention, is the fulfill
ment of prophecies. No man can predict
future events, except in vague and uncer-
tain way. But the Bible is full of prophe-
cies which have been fulfilled, so that the
new testament stands as the witness Of the
statements in the Old. The New Testament
gives an account of personality so remark
able that no writer could have originated it,
least Of all the plain men who wrote the gos-
pels. This wonderful person, Christ Jesus,
was person of humble life, of no learned
antecedents or surroundings; he was man
of the people, a carpenter in provincial
town, and in public life only three years, and
died at the age of thirty-three. Yet this
person planned and accomplished the great
est revolution of thought in the worlds his
tory; claimed to be a king, yet was lowly
and meek; taught from his own intelligence
truths beyond the wisdom of his time, and
which no age since has superseded; changed
the current of the worlds beliefs, and trans
formed all civilized society; possessed mi
raculous powers; yet never used them for
MS own interests or protection; died on the
'
is impossible to believe that the evangelists
could have originated such personality as
this, or could have written the description
unless they drew it from life itself.
The influence of the Bible upon the world
is a strong evidence of its inspiration. The
people who read the Bible are not the wick
ed law breaking class. They learn honesty,
purity, godliness; and they point to the book
as their inspiration to better life. Then
the Bible loving nations are those that lead
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they recognize the Bible as the foundation of
their greatness. Compare England and
Spain, Europe andp Asia, America and
Turkey.
Finally those who are willing to put the
Bible to the test in their personal experience
are convinced that it came from God. Those
who follow its principles, who.follow its ex-
amples, who open their hearts to its light
have no doubt ofits verify and divine origin.
AT II O'Clock,
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE
delivered his address on our wealth in
America" The. familiar term common
wealth" is precise translation of the Latin
"the. public property" We have taken that
word, without translatlng it, in our word
Republic" and We have translated it, in
the other word of the same meaning, Com
monwealth. MI. Hale said he proposed to
show, in some familiar illustrations, how
large and varied is the wealth held in COM
mon by Americans. He thought there was a
careless habit of forgetting how much is
held in common, and what is best held in
seyeralty. The Ir0quois Indians and other
tribes of this grade of civilization held
horses and farms in common. This was an
Improvement on an absolutely savage life,
where each man feeds on the roots he can
dig with his hands from the ground, or the
lizards and snakes which he can kill with
stone. But, from this property in common,
another. stage, which is stage of improve
ment, leads to personal property, even in
land, If man improves il. A simple illus
tration is in the legislation by which the
United States gives from its public domain
private farm to any man who will cultivate
1t. LII he will not cultivate it, the title re-
turns, and the land becomes part of the COM
mon property again.
But. all the same. there remains large
property or wealth which society holds In
common To make some estimate of this
was the aim OF the second part of the ad-
dress. Ii any man would imagine his con-
dltion as 1t would have been were he set
down in Fryeburg as Darby Field was in
1850, If he would compare that with his con-
dition, to-day, making the necessary allow
ances for the difference between his clothing
and Darby Fields he will see how much he
gains from the Common Wealth. Darby
field ate broiled venison and the man at
Fryeburg to-day, eats flour from Dakota,
salt from Syracuse, pepper from India, pork
from Cincinnati, which he owes to social ar
rangements and public investments, which
nave been the creation of the two centuries
and half between Darby Fields time and
ours.
Rev. DR.. Dalton in his lecture on the
KINGDOM OF GOD,
said the American church is in some re-
spects different from them all, a new depart
ure, under new conditions, in new world
But the whole church here as elsewhere,
and now as always is essentially the same
Kingdom of God, which is destined to be-
come universal.
Like ancient Gaul, it is divisible into three
parts, the Hierarchical and Sacerdotal, the
Evangelical or emphatically Biblical, and
the Liberal or Rational. These are popular
descriptive terms, denoting the leading
characteristics of Christians and churches.
Ihey are not used in an exclusive sense, and
the boundaries between them are not always
strictly defined. But they indicate three
tendencies of the human mind, and three
corresponding phases of the religion and
kingdom of Christ To-day, and here, they
to posses the land. They appeal to different
states and even classes of minds, from those
who have no confidence in themselves or
their own reason, to those who have none
out of themselves. They have also their in
fundamental principles. The Evangelicals
e. g. already have unity in essentials "All
they need is freely, heartily to allowIiberty
in nome essentials" and to exercise in all
things, charity When this point is reached,
they may reasonably hope. to become as
really representative of the kingdom of God
among US, as the Jewish, Greek, Latin or
English church, had ever been, each in its
own country.
AT 800 p. m, a conference of the W. C. II.
Y. was held under the direction of Mrs. L.
M. n. Stevens. President of the Maine w.
9. L. u. This was followed by the G. L. S.
G; round table, where questions were answer
ed by DR.. Hale. DR.. Hale spoke again in
the evening.